Abstract

English writing, as one of the four basic skills, plays an important role in English learning. However, the effect of English writing teaching in China is not satisfied as writing is still the shortage of Chinese students to some extent. Plenty of domestic scholars have been constantly doing researches aiming to find out how to enhance the effectiveness of writing teaching in class. Since process approach was introduced into writing teaching in 1960s and 1970s, feedback has become an important component of writing teaching. Consequently, the feedback on students’ writing has become a hot topic among English teachers. This thesis tries to investigate several strategies to enhance writing competence through exploring the effect of different types of teacher feedback, together with the real situation in our writing teaching. Meanwhile, combined with the researches, the author puts forward some suggestions, for the purpose of enhancing the competence of teachers’ teaching and students’ writing.

Keywords: teacher feedback; English writing competence; classification of teacher feedback; function of teacher feedback

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1. Introduction-1

2. Literature Review-1

3. An Overview of Teacher Feedback-3

3.1 A brief introduction to process approach in English Writing Course-3

3.2 The definition of teacher feedback-4

3.3 The classification of teacher feedback-5

3.4 The function of teacher feedback-6

4. Applications of Teacher Feedback in English Writing and Its Enlightenment-7

4.1 Application of teacher feedback in Chinese English Writing Course-7

4.2 Research design-8

4.3 Data collection-10

4.4 Findings and enlightenment-12

5. Conclusion-13

Works Cited-15